Is it gate keeping to suggest that developers should understand their tooling? I guess if we can agree the bar we are reaching for is "proficient", then yeah, I

Is it gate keeping to suggest that developers should understand their tooling? I guess if we can agree the bar we are reaching for is "proficient", then yeah, I suppose a React dev doesn't need to understand how their project is built. There is nothing wrong with "proficient"! I work with lots of "proficient" developers. Great people. Good workers. I set the bar for myself quite a bit higher than that though. I mentor "proficient" developers because I know with a little push some of these developers can become "excellent". It's usually not for lack of ability that developers stagnate, rather, passion (relative to everything else), curiosity, and time. Sometimes I can bring that glint back into their eyes, sometimes not. Again, there is nothing wrong with that! Having a some reliable code monkeys around is, frankly, usually good for a business. And FWIW the longer you do this the more apparent it becomes that "less is more"!